Do municipal unions improve cost efficiency for the social function? A quasi‐experimental endogenous stochastic frontier approach
Francesco Vidoli,
Fabio Quintiliani,
Giorgio Ivaldi
et al.
Abstract:Homogeneous national policies can generate heterogeneous effects on the territory. This paper aims to verify the impact of the entry of single Italian municipalities into an inter‐municipal association on the unitary costs of the social services supplied to the local communities. Panel cost stochastic frontier model in the presence of endogeneity has been introduced based on two pillars: a counterfactual setting to verify the aggregation effects concerning a set of similar municipalities and the use of a cost … Show more
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